Dennis Scholl is a renowned documentary filmmaker with a focus on arts and culture, boasting an impressive roster of interview subjects that includes Robert Redford, Frank Gehry, Wynton Marsalis, Ai Wei Wei, and Theaster Gates.
Most recently, he produced and directed The Last Resort with Kareem Tabsch, a film that won the audience award at the Miami Jewish Film Festival and was an official selection of DOC NYC, with a theatrical release planned via indie distributors Kino Lorber.
In addition to his work on The Last Resort, Scholl co-produced and directed his first feature documentary, Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound, alongside Marlon Johnson and Chad Tingle, which premiered at the 2014 SXSW International Film Festival, screened globally, and was acquired by public broadcast station WLRN for international distribution.
His second feature documentary, Queen of Thursdays, co-written and produced with noted Cuban filmmaker Orlando Rojas, had its world premiere at the 2016 Miami International Film Festival and was named Best Documentary.
Scholl has also produced and directed Symphony in D, the story of America's first crowd-sourced symphony, performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and recently produced Sweet Dillard, about the national champion Dillard High School jazz orchestra and their journey to the Essentially Ellington competition at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
As executive producer, Scholl has overseen over a dozen films with the Miami-based Borscht Film Collective, including six short films that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and Yearbook, the winner of the 2014 Animated Short category at Sundance. Most recently, he helped produce the animated shorts The Sun Like a Big Dark Animal and Glove, both of which premiered at Sundance, with Glove winning Best Animated Short at SXSW.
Scholl has also produced the experimental film Hearts of Palm and served as executive producer of Namour.
His short film, Sunday's Best, won Best Documentary Short at the South Dakota Film Festival, while Dancing with the Trees took home the Audience Choice Award at the Magnolia Film Festival. Everyone has a Place, a documentary about Wynton Marsalis' Abyssinian Mass concert tour, was named Best Documentary Short at the Capital Cities Black Film Festival and is screened on public television stations across America.
In 2019, Scholl completed documentaries about Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Cecile Mclorin Salvant and abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still.
